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Outlines the Permanency Innovations Initiative (PII), a federally funded, multi-site demonstration project aimed at improving permanency options for children in long-term foster care. It integrates implementation science and rigorous evaluation to develop evidence-supported interventions (ESIs) that are ready for replication and broad roll-out.

Provides information to adoption service providers about key issues in adoption and offers suggestions about how they can support all members of the adoption constellation. Also offers recommendations for ways to stay connected to families after placement and finalization.

Provides a general overview of the universal and on-site technical assistance available to Tribal Nations through this project. Post-permanency services are a type of support for families and children who have achieved permanency through guardianship, customary adoption or adoption.

Provides guidelines for planning and implementing a program evaluation with individual chapters addressing specific steps in the evaluation process and practical tools, templates, and recommendations for further reading.

Describes the Resiliency-Focused Supervision Model (RFSM), a strengths-based framework that was developed to enable supervisors to help staff manage stress, avoid burnout, and be successful in the workplace. Offers a practical, pragmatic option for supervisors to use in partnership with workers to promote good health, well-being, and resiliency.

Aims to describe factors that influence the review process timeline and identify steps that study authors and program or service developers can take to help ensure a timely review process.

Explores the value of adoptive parent support groups, emphasizing their role in sustaining adoptions. This article outlines five types of groups: frustration or ventilation group, support group, service group, advocacy group, and political group. It highlights how these groups validate experiences, share resources and offer emotional encouragement.

Delineates the challenges grandfamilies encounter in accessing federal nutrition programs and proposes various policy solutions to alleviate food insecurity.

Provides a compilation of articles on relevant research and best practice related to intercountry adoptions. Includes information on the causes of intercountry adoption discontinuity and practice advice.

Explains what a trauma-responsive support systems looks like and shares strategies to make support services for adoptive, foster, and kinship families more trauma-responsive. Includes information for leaders and managers, supervisors, and caseworkers.